Materials

Yarn: This yarn was purchased from an indie dyer in San Francisco California while my photographer was on a trip visiting a friend. The yarn is a 3-ply fingering weight. Each hat used approx. 50g of yarn. This would be a fun stash-diving project or a great opportunity to buy a delicious skein of yarn at a farmer’s market or craft fair. If you need a solid suggestion – I highly recommend Malarbigo Finito or Mechita.

Abbey, just going over the finishing instructions for the Peach hat & I found an error. We finish with a Row 9 (Row 7) repeat. The sc seam takes us from the top of the hat to the brim. We must then finish off & rejoin at the crown in order to complete the decrease rounds. Please correct me if I’m mistaken but that’s what happened to me.

In order to finish the peach hat on row 9 it measures 20 1/2, if I end at the last section before this one it measures a little more than 18”. At the 20 1/2” the hat is big. I am not going to finish the top until I hear what I should do. Do you need to always stop on row 9?

On the peach hat it might be helpful to add: after you finish the body of the hat, cut the yarn then follow the finishing instructions for the mauve hat. (I had to think about it a little bit, since row 9 finishes at the top of the hat.)

On rows 3, 5, and 7 I am doing the half double crochets in the first stitch, where you usually start the single crochet stitches. On row 7, I am crocheting around the chains instead of into the stitches.

I think it would be helpful to add that you can go crochet a round the chains. It doesn’t change the overall look of the hat and is so much faster. I am almost finished with the body of the hat. I will take a picture before I start the top.

I worked into the chains because I liked how it looked – but it’s a preference thing too… It’s easier to work in the ch-sp but it doesnt pull the space open as well. For testing I’m really okay with you doing it how you want but it’s written to work into each chain 🙂

I’m on my 2nd repeat. My starting chain measured 9″ unstretched. The work in progress now measures 9″ stretched. Is this okay or should I frog & start over with more chains? it fits from the ear to the crown as shown on the model. What are your thoughts?

haha you are good! Some people were thrown off by the Tidepool hat because it’s uncommon to have so much negative ease in a crochet hat. So I added that note. I can make that more clear – add why I put the note, if that will help!